Current and Potential Uses for Geospatial Information and Technologies in Government Arctic GIS Workshop January 22, 2001 Mark Reichardt OpenGIS Consortium

Agenda n Government Focus Areas for GIS n Some Examples - Local to Federal Levels n Directions for the Future

Government Focus Areas Relevant to GIS Spatial Data Infrastructure Spatial Data Infrastructure Place based decision- making Place based decision- making Web Applications and Web Applications andportals G-Government Data Consortia Standards Based Commercial Off the Shelf Products

National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Partnerships Metadata GEOdata Clearinghouse (catalog) Framework Standards

NSDI Vision: A Geographic Information Resource for the 21 st Century n n Current and accurate geospatial data are: – – Readily available: - - locally - - nationally - - globally – – To contribute to: - - economic growth - - environmental quality - - social progress

 Federal focus on coordination of mapping, surveying, and geodesy activities in government  Federal Geographic Data Committee Formed by OMB  National Spatial Data Infrastructure formed by Presidential Executive Order  Emergence of Regional, and Global SDI initiatives Genesis of the US National Spatial Data Infrastructure

A Network of NSDI Organizations National League of Cities National Association of Counties Intertribal GIS CouncilUniversity Consortium on GI Sciences Open GIS ConsortiumFederal Geographic Data Committee National States Geographic Information Council International City / County Managers Association

SDI Clearinghouse Growth 1995 – January 2001

Many Local, National, Global Gateways to Spatial Information Catalogs

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure  Encourage growth of National Spatial Data Infrastructures capable of supporting collaboration on regional and global issues of importance  Steering Committee representing all continents  SDI Implementation Guide available at Accra, Ghana - August 2000

GIS and Government n Tools and spatial information are: –Improving decision-making –Driving policy decisions –Increasing Accountability n Some illustrations follow…

Crime Mapping and Analysis  Baltimore Police and US Dept of Justice  Uses GIS for crime analysis, accountability, and community-based policing  Regional crime coordination

Before After Detect Trends and Identify Potential Suspects DOJ application donated to local police to encourage regional collaboration & data standardization

North Carolina n Strong inter-governmental spatial program coordination n Robust Spatial Data Clearinghouse and telecommunications infrastructure n County to State level web-based spatial data servers and portals n Data/Technology/Work Share Agreements with 17 Federal Agencies, tribal and local governments n Moving to Standards Based technologies –Improved freedom of vendor, platform, network choices –Increased flexibility for internal operations and public access

North Carolina and GIS  An ongoing program that supports a digital, large scale, integrated Framework (with metadata)  Other Thematic Datasets  Better GIS Tools  Spatial Access to Other Scientific and Technical Material Hurricane Floyd experience exposed need for:

Upper Susquehanna/Lackawanna Watershed  Flooding and environment  Pennsylvania GIS Consortium and EPA are partners  American Heritage River  OGC Interoperability Pilot to test Regional Consortia concepts  Use of distributed Local, federal, vendor data  Standards-based COTS tools and spatial data servers

Hurricane Mitch - Disaster Response USGS Information Technology Supporting: - Reconstruction and recovery - Mitigation of Future Hazards

Federal Geodata Portals on the Web How can I apply the data from multiple sources in my application?

Future Direction  Continued movement of government toward E- and G-government –Service not by agency mission, but by topic / theme –Service based on the citizen’s location  Increased emphasis on standards-based spatial technologies –Applications that operate across different networks, platforms, and vendor brands –Allow quick adoption of new technology

Future Direction  Continued growth of standards-based web spatial capabilities -Decision Support, modeling -Location Based Services -3D and 4D  Geospatial Policy and Partnerships -Multi-sector pooling of resources for spatial data and technology initiatives -Procurements that demand standards-based COTS -(Major OMB initiative has interest of over 20 States)

Copyright 2001, OpenGIS Consortium, All Rights Reserved Stove piped, and centralized: Open and distributed: Few users, few sources Many users & sources, geo enabled markets What’s Happening with Geospatial Data and Technologies? GIS GIS Earth Imaging Earth Imaging CADD CADD AM/FM AM/FM Navigation Sys. Navigation Sys. Big Data Files Big Data Files Web access, catalogs Live map links, live data links Geo-Application Services Location Services for position-aware devices Non-visual geospatial services

Coyright 2001, OpenGIS Consortium, All Rights Reserved OGC Vision & Mission   Our Vision:   The complete integration of geospatial data and geoprocessing resources into mainstream computing.   Our Mission:   Develop interface specifications that facilitate the use of “spatial” or “location” information and services across networks, platforms, and brands.   Enable developers and integrators to agree at the interface, so they can focus more on workable component solutions.   Encourage fielding of Standards-based Commercial off the Shelf products and services to consumers at reasonable cost.

Copyright 2001, OpenGIS Consortium, All Rights Reserved OGC Approach   Global, Non-profit, Consensus-based process: Over 220 members from industry, government, academia collaborate to develop interface specifications that make geospatial data and processes a integral part of the IT enterprise220 members   Specification Program: Develop implementation level spatial technology specifications for open access and use interfaces approved or in candidate status - -Geography Markup Language de facto industry standard   Interoperability Program: Innovative, hands on engineering and test environment designed to deliver proven standards for finalization through the specifications program   Strategic Partnerships: OGC coordinates with international and commercial standards organizations to focus the agenda for spatial technology interoperability

Copyright 2001, OpenGIS Consortium, All Rights Reserved OGC Web Services: Generate spatial views and analysis from multiple distributed servers simultaneously using a plain web browser, regardless of software vendor, data format, spatial reference system… Internet Vendor Data Local Government Federal Government Other Collections Clearinghouse Whoville Cedar Lake Whoville Cedar Lake Buildings Roads Images Targets Boundaries... Catalog View Common interfaces enable interoperability Queries extract info from diverse sources Integrated View Gazetteer Coordinate Transform Web Mapping Server, Web Feature Server, Web Coverage Server Catalog Services Other Services Metadata Data Metadata Data Metadata Data Metadata

Copyright 2001, OpenGIS Consortium, All Rights Reserved Information Requests Services Metadata SERVICESSERVICES Discovery Operators Fusion Operators Visualization Operators Profile Mgmt Operators Security Operators OGCWEBSERVICESOGCWEBSERVICES Geoservices Management System REGISTRYREGISTRY Information Management Visualization, Analysis, Modeling, Decision Support Sources Information Responses Web Pages, Symbolized Graphics, Data, Geolinks, Metadata, Applications Catalog Server XML = Web Server STATE NOAA SDIGateways USGS CommercialSources Value Add Operators What OGC Brings to the Table: Interfaces to Support Interoperable, Component-based Products GeospatialSources Univ’s From a simple web browser to robust GIS Applications OGC will be addressing decision support and modeling interfaces in 2001 Plug and Play

For More Information: OpenGIS Consortiumwww.opengis.org Web Mapping FGDCwww.fgdc.gov GSDIwww.gsdi.org National Atlaswww.nationalatlas.gov Enviromapperhttp://maps.epa.gov/enviromapper/ NC MAPNETwww. ncmapnet.com

OGC Upper Susquehanna- Lackawanna Pilot Project Examples Follow

Immediate integration of different sources Viewed with a web browser Street Data from US EPA, Image from local map server

Dynamic integration of Federal and Private Sector Data